Looking To The Stars

Fair Warning: I just skimmed through this in the comic shop, while I was waiting for the line to die down this morning on the way to work, so some of this may not be totally accurate. Feel free to let me know if I was off on any major plot details in the comments.

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Tough this isn't really comics related, I thought I'd write about it here since this is on my mind now, following the disappointment of Justice League: Cry For Justice.

It's a terrible thing to grow up loving an author and then, later on, to be disappointed by them. I had a number of friends who dealt with this not too long ago - they being big fans of Orson Scott Card and being horrified by his horrible comments regarding gay marriage. Recently, I had a similar revelation regarding one of my favorite fantasy writers' - Raymond Feist.

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Being a serious list of twenty things that bother me a little/worry me a lot about this book.

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This being a Justice League book written by James Robinson (who penned my favorite comic series of all time) staring two of my favorite superheroes of all time (Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen), you can imagine that I have a lot to say about it.

In fact, what I have to say about it is going to have to go into two separate posts.

This first one, will feature a humorous summary of this first book.

The second one, will be a more serious discussion of what I liked and didn't like.

Enjoy!

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Okay. The Fourth is past. My ankle is healing up again. And I have two months worth of Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps details to make up for and annotate.

Let's do this.

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There's nothing I can honestly review here, folks. I think it's brilliant but I admit my own bias and freely admit that there is a LOT going on here that isn't really friendly to new readers. Get the trade-paperbacks and start catching up, though. You are NOT going to want to miss Blackest Night once it gets going. Hopefully Johns and company will make that one a little more accessible to new readers.

Because I've been putting these off for too long, let's get back into the swing of things and do some reviews!

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tarotchan for inspiring a lot of these ideas if not developing them herself.

djt2445 for help with some of the continuity research and proof-reading.

Christopher Bird for the inspiration.

And every single one of you, for tolerating this month long diversion.